{"id":7216,"date":"2018-05-23T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T05:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grancaffegambrinus.com\/voce-e-notte-a-love-song-written-on-the-tables-of-a-cafe\/"},"modified":"2022-07-04T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T13:01:26","slug":"voce-e-notte-a-love-song-written-on-the-tables-of-a-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grancaffegambrinus.com\/en\/voce-e-notte-a-love-song-written-on-the-tables-of-a-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"“Voce ‘e notte”, a love song written on the tables of a cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article by Michele Sergio published in Il Roma of 20 May 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

The historic Caff\u00e8 Gambrinus, especially between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the favorite location for artists and musicians to spend idle hours and, often, compose and write melodies between an ice cream and a glass of wine, a coffee and a pastry. . It is precisely at the tables of the famous meeting that many songs were written that today are part of the great heritage of classical Neapolitan music. One of these masterpieces is the marvelous Voice and the passionate night of a suffering lover. It is said that Eduardo Nicolardi, at the age of 25, editor of the daily “Don Marzio” and poet for pleasure, one day in 1903 was a thunderbolt and fell madly in love with the eighteen year old Anna Rossi. The young woman from the balcony of his house returned with passionate glances the nascent passion. When Nicolardi found the courage to ask her father for the hand of the girl, the latter, Commendatore Gennaro Rossi, a horse race dealer, told him that he would marry his daughter only to a rich man. As Nicolardi, it was not, great was his disappointment at the position taken by his beloved’s father and even greater was when he learned that his Anna went to marry a rich landowner of 75 years! The girl had to accept, in spite of herself, the paternal decision and together with her husband she went to live in Via Santa Teresa.<\/p>\n

But Nicolardi did not give up: every night he went under the bride and groom in the hope of once again meeting, at least, her gaze. One night Eduardo had the sudden sensation that Anna was desiring him, even though he could not meet him. Inspired in this way at the Caff\u00e8 Gambrinus, also open late at night and wrote the verses of the famous song.<\/p>\n

Music by Ernesto De Curtis, Voce ‘e notte was made famous by the great Neapolitan song and particularly, in the atmosphere version, by Peppino di Capri.<\/p>\n

The fate rewarded the tenacity of Eduardo in fact, just a year after the marriage, Anna’s elderly husband passed to better life and Nicolardi finally managed to get married to the young widow. Their marriage was long (almost 50 years) and happy (the two had eight children!).<\/p>\n

Si \u2018sta voce te sc\u00e9ta \u2018int\u201d\u009da nuttata,<\/em>
\nmentre t’astrigne \u2018o sposo tujo vicino\u201d\u00a6<\/em>
\nStatte scetata, si vu\u00e0\u00b3’ st\u00e0\u00a1 scetata,<\/em>
\nma fa’ ved\u00e9 ca duorme a suonno chino\u201d\u00a6<\/em><\/p>\n

Nun gh\u00e0\u00ad vicino \u00e0\u00aa llastre pe’ f\u00e0\u00a1 \u2018a spia,<\/em>
\npecch\u00e9 nun pu\u00e0\u00b3 sbagli\u00e0\u00a1 \u2018sta voce \u00e8 \u2018a mia\u201d\u00a6<\/em>
\nE’ \u2018a stessa voce \u2018e quanno tutt’e duje,<\/em>
\nscurnuse, nce parl\u00e0\u00a1vamo cu \u2018o \u201cvvuje\u201d\u009d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Si \u2018sta voce te canta dint\u201d\u009do core<\/em>
\nchello ca nun te cerco e nun te dico;<\/em>
\ntutt\u201d\u009do turmiento \u2018e nu luntano ammore,<\/em>
\ntutto ll’ammore \u2018e nu turmiento antico\u201d\u00a6<\/em><\/p>\n

Si te v\u00e8ne na smania \u2018e vul\u00e9 bene,<\/em>
\nna smania \u2018e vase c\u00e0\u00b3rrere p\u201d\u009de vv\u00e9ne,<\/em>
\nnu fuoco che t’abbrucia comm’a che,<\/em>
\nv\u00e0\u00a1sate a chillo\u201d\u00a6che te \u2018mporta \u2018e me?<\/em><\/p>\n

Si \u2018sta voce, che chiagne \u2018int\u201d\u009da nuttata,<\/em>
\nte sceta \u2018o sposo, nun av\u00e9 paura\u201d\u00a6<\/em>
\nVide ch’\u00e8 senza nomme \u2018a serenata,<\/em>
\ndille ca dorme e che se rassicura\u201d\u00a6<\/em><\/p>\n

Dille accuss\u00e0\u00ad: \u201cChi canta \u2018int’a \u2018sta via<\/em>
\no sarr\u00e0\u00a1 pazzo o more \u2018e gelusia!<\/em>
\nStarr\u00e0\u00a1 chiagnenno quacche \u2018nfamit\u00e0\u00a1\u201d\u00a6<\/em>
\nCanta isso sulo\u201d\u00a6Ma che canta a f\u00e0\u00a1?!\u201d\u00a6\u201d\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n